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The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01

There is lots of coal to be mined yet.
According to the calculations made by
q scientific writer lately, it requires a
prodigious amount Of vegetable matter
to form q layer of coal, the estimate be-
ing that it would really take /, 900, 900
years to form a coal bed 100 fest thick.
The United States has an area of be-
tween 300, 900 and 400, 900 square miles
Of coal fields, 100, 900, 900 tons of coal
being mined from these fields each year,
Or enough to run airing around the earth
at the equator five and a half feet wide
and five and a half feet thick, the guam
tity being sufficient to supply the whole
world for a period of 1900 to 1000
years.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01

A month later Mrs. Bray returned he
friends call. Her face still worea worn
harassed expression, and she sighed a
she accepted the chair. Mrs. Arde pusheG
forward.
81 thought I'd run in for a littls
while," she said, sfbut I don't know thai
you'll thank me for coming. Pm dull
company for anybody these days"
II hope your husband hasn't been dis
charged" said Mrs. Arde.
mo; he's kept his place, and he and
the new superintendent are great friends
l only hope it will last" was the reply.
"Then that worry is off your mind
and your cottage is rented, too. Mr..
Arde and / drove past it yesterday and
saw ONE children playing on the
porch"
eyes, it's rented, and to a very nice
family, said Mrs. Bray. "They pay a
higher rate than we expected to get too,
and that's a great help. But Of course
they won't stay-we can't expect it. I
was saying to John a few days ago that
it wouldn't surprise me at all if the
house was empty again by the end of
December, there are always s. many
changes made about that season of the
year."
"You must hope for the best. How
about that note you feared would not be
paid 2"
''Oh, that trouble is off my mind,
thank goodness! The man paid it.
But 1t would be just like John to lend
his name to another. Pm worried about
it all the time. He don't know how to
refuse a friend anything. I am always
telling him that his generosity will bring
US all to the poor-house yet"
Again Mrs. Arde thought of "Poor
joint and wondered how he endured
life tied to a woman who crossed every
bridge long before she came to it and
found rocks and burrs in the smoothest
path.
This is not a fancy sketch, and I ven-
ture nothing in saying that among those
who read it there will be few who AN
not call to mind people who, like Mrs.
Bray, borrow trouble on every hand.
Christian Week!y.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01
Jananese lii America.

The first Japanese to settle in San
Francisco we're eleven persons, who ar
rived Ii 1870. Now there are more than
eight hundred Japanese in the city, sof
whom about forty are m OF these
forty twenty are married and their
fbildren attend the public schools. These
Japanese have come to San Francisco
Il learn English and partly to escape
military service in Japan, and they are
generally well educated. They are
mostly engaged II house service in San
francisco, III which they are proficient.
q few of them are nominal Christians,
while the rest are atheists. THE t~ortures
y hell, I they say ..are graded according
81 tho aluont Of money ono has, When
ked Why more Japanese women have
not come over ore Of them said: .sThe
less ii The better; i woman's tongue
$llEse inches long can kill d man six feet
hie rMsp Yorb zfiBass.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01
Cookina at Sea.

The first thing that naturally
attracts the attention of q
landsman is, what a fearful state of con-
fusion there must be in the
galley during a rolling sea! Imagine an
ordinary kitchen CRATE covered with
saucepans, ETC., were it suddenly to be-
gin to swing backwards and forwards
like a sea-saw. This difficulty, however,
is easily overcome. Every galley fire is
fitted with a number of iron bars fasten.
ed to a rod at the back, and which fiji
into little grooves in a rod in front.
Consequently, when the sea is rough
these bars are fixed, and each cooking
utensil is held tightly in its place be-
tween the bars just the same as a sauce
pan could be held over an ordinary
fireplace with a strong pair of pin
GERS.
/. Another difficulty is when the sauce
pans on the fire are at all full-when the
ship rolls they over. The remedy
for this is as simple as DR.. Abernethy's
n for the old lady who complained of
having such a dreadful pain in her arm
when she went $780," He pocketed his
guinea and said, 'Don't go So" So
with the saucepans, the simple remedy
is, "Don't fill the saucepans." No
saucepans on board ship should ever be
more than three-quarters full when the
ship is rolling.
My first impression in watching the
cooking on board ship was-how many
practical lessons might be learnt from it
by cooks on shore! How often do cooks
complain that s'there is no doing any
thing in this pokey Kitchen" the pokey
kitchen being probably quite four times
the size of the galley in which I am
standing, in which breakfast, lunch and
dinner have to be prepared daily for over
200 persons. The requisite qualities
required for success are early rising, an
entire absence of business, and, by no
means the least important, the power of
looking ahead and seeing that each per-
minds his own business without in
terfering with another's.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01
The Home of Love

No wonder the work goes wrong;
Worry, and fuss. and fume and fret,
With never a change in the song.
And the husband mutters, with scowling face,
AS he enters his home and takes his place,
'Ah, surely, mine is a pitiful case,
For my wife does nothing but fret.n
Scoldi scoldl scoldi
And the voice is sharp and thinl
The eye is hard and the hand is quick,
And they spare neither kith or kin;
While the neighbors mock at the vixen's
tongue,
And the husband goes where the drunkards
throng, IL
And browns his woes with a glass and song
Because his wife is a scold.
Smile! smile! smile!
For a magicpower is this;
What a welcome home to a weary man
Are asmile and a wife.y kissl
For smiles in a cottage must sunshine make,
AS over the kindly lips they break,
Who would not work for the dear, sweet sake
OF a wife with a sunny smile?
Love! love! Lowell
Whatever the trouble be,
Remember that love is q brother fond,
That is born for adversely:
Though heavy the burdens may be to bear,
OF poverty, weariest toll, and care.
The lowliest home may be bright and fair,
If it is but the home Of love.
Everybody Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01
OId-Tgsne D,.inktno Habfts.

This writer remembers having worked
IN Q crew of sixteen carpenters in Port
land in 1926, every one whom drank
spirits. The employer furnished srog
to all at + q. N. and 4 p. m. aaving
finished one building the whole crew
went down '..lc harbor on an excursion
and tooA two gallons Of rum. In 1889
he helped build 4 meeting house in
Whitefeld. A hogshead of rum was
bought BY the contractor, aud the most
oft was consumed in building that
meeting house. No-those were not the
good old Zines. -Lsofston (Ms.
Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01

The people of Oregon are looking,
some day, for an eruption from Mount
Hood, an extinct volcano in the Cascade
range, eighty miles east of Portland.
Simultaneous with the earthquake at
Charleston, strange sounds were heard in
the crater Of Hood for several days, and
parties of tourists in the neighborhood
became alarmed and returned to the city
for safety. Biologists are convinced that
1t will resume operations some time. The
last eruption occurred SO long ago that
the Indians have no memory of it. They
have a tradition, however, that Mount
Hood and Saint Helens were once close
together lone on the north, the other on
the south bank Of the Columbia river.
They lived in peace for thousands of years.
One day they quarrelled, throwing fire,
ashes and stones at each other. These
fell into the river and blocked it up,
causing the great cascades of the Cos
Iumiia.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01

w. A. Croffut, editor of the Washing
ton Poc5, tells the following story of the
returnof the remains of the late A. T.
EteY Grt. He says he had the story from
. d mber of the Hilton family at a din
ner parsy. He says: ut was a couple
Of years anterior to that, I think my in
formant said, that the bones were finally
ransomed. Judge Hilton persistently
refused to consent to it, and at last,
when Hrs. Stewart declared herself un-
able any longer to carry the burden of
the CHASTITY thought that the remains of
her husband were being carted around
she country by a gang of thieves, she
deied her lawyers scruples and conclu-
aed negotiations. Mrs. Stewart CAV
$25, 900 instead of the $50, 600 at first
demanded. The bargain was made
through d lawyer who seemed to have
40 other briefs, and who probably got a
good fraction Of the sswag.' The ghouls
insiskd | the money should be de-
liyered to hem on q lonely hill in West
chester county at the dead of night.
Thither, in accordance with their direc-
lions, d relative of Mrs. Stewart iourneyed
alone IL a wagon, which he drove him
sell. AT a spot in the country road
which had not been designated or de-
scribed the driver was suddenly halted
bly, q masked horsenlan. This mysterious
messenger led him through a b -lane to
the hilltop, where, after certain precau-
ions 10 insure their safety, they received
he $25, 600, examined il, and then drag
ged 4 bag Of bones from another buggy
near By and sure adered IL to the keep
sng Of the solitffy traveller. Before they
I'M appeared down one side of the hill
aed him, on peril of his
about and descend the other
de did as he was hidden and
. New York before morning. The
night the bones were committed to
vault under the great cathedral at
den City, which had already been
nnecsed by d secret wire with q chime
bells sure to ring and alarm the town
AT was disturbed. sonow the mortal
remains Of the great merchant million
afro and those Of his patient, ed Turing,
and affectionate wife Of sixty
years rest side By side.n
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01
The Land of Lakes.

flniand Is, In the language OF the
country, Suomesimaa, "the land of the
lakes, and this is really the truth, as nc
less than one-third is under water. Much
of this is, however, marsh land, though
the lakes Sauna, Lodoga, Enare, etc.,
cover some thousands of square miles.
The surface of the country is flat, with a
chain of low hills about the centre, the
highest of these being the mountain
"Aavasaksa." The coasts are deeply in
dented and picturesque, with bold gran
lite cliffs standing clear ont against the
deep blue sky, and many islands belong
ing to the Archipelago of Aland dot the
surface of its western waters. Inland
there are dense forests of pine, fir and
birch, which have a strange and enthrall-
ing influence upon the imagination.
Notwithstanding their usually sombre
aspect, there are innumerable pleasant
glades in the recesses of these woods,
where the tall white-stemmed birch and
great boulders covered with lichen crop
up from the grass and form a pleasant
picture; besides this the Jakes have a
beauty-solemn and reconsideration
can scarcely be found elsewhere. The
landscape, 100, dotted with numerous
Windmills, and the church towers, built
apart from the places of worship, present
strange pictures. From these towers the
night watchmen sound their horns or
play upon ~triangles as an alarm of fire.
o ten in the dead of night a great blaze
on the horizon will tell of some forest
fire. These are mainly owing to the
carelessness Of the peasantry, and, com
bined with the great expectation of tim
Der and its lavish use for frewood and
for building purposes have caused a.
great rise in its value within the last few
years. Travelling in the country, though
IS not always pleasant. Many of
the roads are what would be described
as cordaroyn--that is, having rough
logs laid across, over which ones vehicle
bumps and jumps i'm a manner calculated
to make the bones sore for a considerable
time after a journey. The velocity with
which the natives send the carriage down
hills is also likely to try the nerves of
any not to the manner born. Most per-
posting through Finland have their
own vehicles, wheeled ones for the sum-
and sledges for the winter, and they
horses at each stage of about if
teen versts (ten English niles. Should
you have to trust to the post house for
Q conveyance Jon are more likely than
not condemned to travel in a cart with
out springs and a hard seat with no back
10 i, or an ordinary work sledge. The
for posting is little enough, being
len Finnish pennies I'd. English) per
Eerst, md the driver is required by law
% take you at the rate of one Swedish
seven English miles per hour. -Leisure
E0xP5
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01

The colonies of Australia and the
neighboring islands have some twenty
scientific societies, with a membership of
between $500 aud 5000. These organi-
cations are to meet in 1883 for the pur-
pose of forming an Australian a~ssocia-
tion for the advancement of science, SIM
liar to the important associations now
existing in England, France and the
United Stntes.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01

A pumpkin grew to weigh $50 pounds
at Newburg, N. X, BY being fed on
milk. One of the roots was allowed to
rest in a basin of milk, and it consumed
a pint Of the liquid each day. It strikes
us Is rather an expensive way to raise
pumpkins.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01
IN Apl,rodrlnte Diet.

u smelt cake baking this morning,
Maria. What kind was it2, inquired
Mr. links
Sponge cake, dear. Shall i put some
on the table for dinnefq
sNo said links gloomily, Save ii
til some Of your relations come to see
e again. I'll be more appropriate.
Merchant Isapelsr.
The Opelousas courier., 1887-01-01

Settled

smith-Brown, the old bachelor. said
he would never marry.
Jones-That's . fact. I've heard him
say SO myself.
s.-Hell, rllsbet he'll be married in a
month.
What makes you think sol
s-He's flirting with a widow.-Rs-
Ton Courier.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
Return of the Royal Party.

King Kalakaua, Princess Poomaike-
lani, with their respective retinues, and
officers of the Kaimiloa, together with
Hon. John A. Cummins and family,
arrived from Waimanalo last evening
by the steamer John A. Cummins.
There were swarm Of Government
officials, about a dozen policemen and
a score or so Of cabs on the wharf to
meet the party. A very miscellaneous
litter Of furniture, traps, and effects OF
natives in the royal train, was unloaded
from the deck on to the wharf. Lieut.
enant Maikai was in business up to the
ears for a time in arranging for trans
port Of the party and dunnage. He
told one hickman he might take that
"little girP up, pointing to young
woman of about 400 pounds avoirdu-
pois. Cabby obeyed with double
fare CLEAN in his eye.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
Found in an Artesian Well.

In addition to bits of charred wood
which we noticed the other day as hav-
ing been brought up from depth Of
500 feet in the artesian well which the
Kicks Water Company are drilling, we
have been shown pieces Of shells, such
as are common along the ocean beach
These come up from as far down as
$50 feet, which depth has now been
reached. These fragments Of shells
are found In considerable quantity, and
Mr.. Kicks informs us, also, that two or
three pieces OF bone from the skeleton
of a bird have come up. The finding
of such things so deep in the earth is
exciting considerable interest in the
community, and the inquiry naturally
arises, How came they there9 1t seems
pretty conclusive that at some period
the strata in which they are embedded
we're not below the level of the sea,
At some time those shells were on the
surface, and on the surface, in ages
past, somebody kindled the fire that
charred those bits of wood; some time
that bird was winging about above
ground. But when was that and by
what means were they entombed in SC
deep a sepulcher3 We are we'll as
sured that the further revelations which
the drill shall make in its descent, viii
be watched and the aid OF science viii
be invoked to unravel the mystery
EnyeEa, CAL, Times
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
Italian Sculpture in Wood.

A striking group in wood, the pro-
duct Of an Italian sculptor's art, is on
view in Mr.. ]. II. Soper's book store.
1t comprises the figures Of a wandering
minstrel and his boy, the former with
upcast eyes playing the guitar, the lad
with flute under his arm holding out
his hat for gratuities. A satchel lies
near the old mans feet. The persons,
apparel and effects, all except the mu
steal instruments, betoken that the
Ministries are "blokes wat earn their
Twin very ard, VERY ard" like the
member OF their class personated by
Mills the "only." The carving is ex-
quisite. One Of the most remarkable
things about the work is the boys face,
which on one side betokens good fare
and happy heart and the other severe
hunger and utter woe. The work is
the property Of Hon. II. A. Widemann,
who bought it on his recent visit tc
Europe, and the sculptor's name and
place are engraved on the pedestal a:
&C. Raddi, Venszia."
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
Vessels Expected from Foreign Ports

Ger bk Hercules, -, from Liverpool, due Feb.
ruary 1910, 1857. To Sehaefcf & Co. agents.
Brit bark Cerastes, from Liverpool due May TAO.
Br bark r. l.. T., from Newcastle, ~ S. w. due
Feb fS-7s.
IS Alameda, Morse, from San francisco, due April
10.
Bark Makah, from Newcastle, N W. due April
1910.
Brit bark Scottish Lassie, Singer from Liverpool.
due May 9o-3I.
Bkins Hattie Bangs. Tsnill, from Hongkong. due
April 1890.
Haw sehr Jennie Walker, Anderson, from Tanning
Island, now due.
Am bark Hope. Penhallow. from Port Townsend,
due May I-Io.
An, bk,ue John wOrsier, from British. Columbia,
dne May 2o-lo.
Am bark c, Q. whiimore, Thompson, from Depart
ure Bay, due May ao.3o.
Am bktue Amelia, Newhall, from Port Townsend
now due.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
DANAGING RUNWAY.
ArageOus Conduct Of Convict Driver

Yesterday afternoon Mr.. c. B. Pat
terson drove up to the door of his
place Of business at Mr.. Lincoln's
joiner shop, and having occasion to 20
inside for minute left his horse and
brake standing at the side Of the street.
He had scarcely more than got inside,
when a score or two Of the road carts,
in charge Of the prison gang,
came along at a rafting pace. One of
the drivers, either not looking ahead Of
him or in wantonness, ran the shaft of
his cart full tilt against the fore
shoulder Of Patterson's horse, causing
it to bolt and run.
Mr.. Oeding's horse and baggage ex
press stood on the side of the street
close by, and the wagon was struck by
the runaway brake and overturned. A
native prevented Oeding's horse from
contributing to a stampede, and the
wagon was not damaged to any extent
In the meantime Pattersons horse wal
careering through the principal thor.
oughfares, that are always thronged q
that hour with hacks and private car
riages. The owner followed his horse
in hack, but was distanced. Eventu
ally he found his brake in badly dam
aged condition, near DIR. Brodie's OF
Beretania street. The horse had lefl
the vehicle there, and was itself caugh
by native out on the plains beyonC
Alapai street.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
Y. M. c. A, Annual Social,

Last evening the annual social Of
the Y. M. c. A. was held at the rooms.
Mr. w. A. Bowen, retiring President,
presided, and Rev. w. b. Oleson
opened the meeting with prayer. Mr..
+. J. Lowrey presented the report Of
the Devotional Committee for the past
year; Mr.. P. c. Jones that of the Tenn
perance Committee; Rev. DIR. Hyde,
that OF the Reading Room Committee;
Mr. L. o. White, in the absence Of the
retiring Treasurer, Mr.. Southwick, that
officers report, and Mr.. S, d. Fuller,
General Secretary, the report Of the
Associations work in general.
The retiring President delivered an
address on the Working of the Lea.
ven," and introduced his successor,
Mr.. Lowrey, in fitting words. The new
President made few remarks on tax
ing his seat of office. After bushes:
ice cream and other light refreshments
engaged the company's attention for 9
brief season, spiced with social inter
course Of happy nature. There wa
an average attendance, although the
Honolulu Rifles drill caused the alb
sence OF some young men and a meet
ing Of the trustees few of the oldel
members.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
SUPREME COURT
April Term.

The Court again sat in banco yester-
day. Present Chief Justice Judd, and
Associate Justices McCully, Preston
and Bicksrton. The following cases
were argued and submitted
Leiau VS.. Kalua Equity appeal.
Thompson for plaintiff; Austin for de-
PENDANT.
Hyman, appellant, VS.. Collector
General Of Customs Police Court
appeal against the amendment Of 1886
to the Customs tariff on cigars. Neu-
mann & Hatch for appellant At.
torney General Rosa for prepayment.
Wilcox VS.. Kekahuna, appellant.
Exceptions. Rosa for plaintiff; Holo-
kahiki and Kane for defendant.
Thrum VS.. P. G. Advertiser Co.
Equity appeal. Thurston and A. G.
Smith for PLAINTIFF Whiting & Creigh.
ton and Hatch for defendants. Plain
tiff appealed against Judge Preston''
decision nonsuitlng him on the GROUND
Of insufficient publication Of advertise
ment Of copyright Of Hawaiian Annua
and Almanac.
Wood, appellant, VS.. Dillingham;
Equity appeal against confirmation BY
the Chief Justice of Masters report
awarding amount to be paid by plain
tiff to defendant for improvements OF
property at issue in original suit
Whiting & Creighton and Kinney
Peterson for plaintiff; Hatch and Dol
for defendant,
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
Police Court.

Kaui and Keopuhuna, drunk, we're
fined at the old rate.
Lam Hung pleaded not guilty to the
charge Of gaming at pakepio, but on
trial was adjudged guilty. He was
fined $Ioo and costs, in default impris-
onment till the fine is paid. An APP
peal was noted.
All Pau acknowledged the corn
when arraigned for gaming at che ia,
and was put down for $50 and costs.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
The Lecture Tonight,

The hour Of Mrs Williams lecture
on Dante to night is fixed at Jas, so
that those who may wish to do so can
utilize the 9 o'clock omnibusses in re-
turning home. There will undoubtedly
be a large attendance Of the cultured
and educated class Of Honolulu society
present Mrs Williams brings to her
very attractive subject such ripened
wisdom, keen powers Of analysis and
vivid portrayal, and such breadth Of
view and insight, that all lovers Of
choice literary entertainment should by
all means be present.
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
Rife Competition.

Three rifles are offered in competi-
ton by abe Hawaiian Rife Association
for the best score at 200, 400 and 500
yards Any person wishing to COM
pete has only to buy score card at so
cents for each distance, and shoot
through as many cards as be buys for
all the month Of May. Messrs. Fisher
and Nicoll have the cards for sale.
Proceeds will go to the building fund,
for erecting accommodations for spec
tators at the Associations ranges on
King street..
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
BUSINESS ITEMS,

No handboo cxcels the Hawaiian Almanac,
and Annual for reliable statistical and general
information relating to these Islands Price
so cents.
II you want good smoke for your money
patronize home industry and call AZ J. w.
lIingleys, Crystal Soda Works, oo Ho1ell
street, next door to Horns Bakery, Island
orders solicited and promptly filled There IS
no license required to sell these cigars
The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1887-04-29
chas. T. Gulick---NOtary Public.

Records searched, abstract Of title furn'
shed, and conveyances drawn on short notice.
COLLECTION AGENCY .-..Mr. John Good,
IT,, authorized collector
EMPLOYMENT AGENCY. ..Mr F. Marcos,
special agent.
GENERAL BUSINESS Agency. mo. 3S
Merchant street.
Bell Telephone 34S. p. o, Box AIS